Instructor(s): Lin Lin

This course focuses on biopsychosocial concepts related to the responses of children and their families to the illness of the child. Theories of growth and development, cultural influences, stress and coping, ethical issues, and the physiological phenomena of symptoms and responses to disease are applied to the management of the sick child. Nursing process is incorporated into the determination of the nursing role for the care of the patient and family throughout the health-illness continuum.

Instructor(s): Lin Lin

This practicum is to be taken concurrently with N146, and consists of the supervised clinical experiences in which students learn skills of assessment and interventions applicable to the registered nurse in a pediatric setting.

Instructor(s): Cynthia F. Belew

Course focuses on biopsychosocial concepts of normal reproductive and childbearing events. Emphasis is on nursing assessment and management of the childbearing family, the woman, fetus and newborn during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods.

Instructor(s): Cynthia F. Belew

Focuses on biophychosocial concepts of normal reproductive and childbearing events. Emphasis is on nursing assessment and management of the childbearing family, the woman, fetus and newborn during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum.

Instructor(s): Marianne Biangone

This course provides an introduction to socio-cultural concepts in health and illness to allow the student to practice cultural humility/provide culturally competent care. We will examine the relevance/impact of context (culture, race, SES, class, spiritual beliefs, education, neighborhood, community, country of origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc.) on the experience of the patient, the provider, the structure of healthcare system, and the inter-relationships between these entities.

Instructor(s): Lynda A Creighton-Wong

Course presents biopsychosocial theories of human behavior as they relate to function, alteration, and/or disruption of mental processes; reviews current knowledge related to nursing care, psychiatric treatment, and psychosocial rehabilitation of the identified mentally ill adults and children and their families.

Instructor(s): Lynda A Creighton-Wong

This clinical course is required to be completed concurrently with N149, and consists of supervised direct patient care experiences related to nursing assessment and management of the patient with acute and/or severe and persistent mental illness.

Instructor(s): Katherine E Holbrook

This course integrates the science of public health with nursing science to identify upstream, population-focused approaches to improving a communitys health. This course examines the role of a public health nurse and identifies public health nursing interventions with an emphasis on primary prevention strategies at the individual, community and systems level of care.

Instructor(s): Katherine E Holbrook

This clinical course applies public health nursing concepts and interventions in a variety of community-based settings. Nursing care is focused on evidence-based, preventative approaches for individuals, families, and communities. N150A must be taken concurrently with N150.

Instructor(s): Marianne Biangone

Course explores major issues and trends in contemporary nursing and health care delivery as they relate to nursing practice, education and research. Course identifies strategies nurses can use to influence issues affecting practice and health care delivery.

Instructor(s): Susana P Leong

The purpose of the course is to enhance scientific writing skills. There will be a focus on developing skills to write a strong introductory paragraph, organize a critical review of the literature, and create a concise conclusion. Bibliographic search methodology and American Psychological Association (APA) editorial format will be reviewed and utilized.

Instructor(s): Angel C Kuo

This 3-quarter course will provide foundational content on interprofessional collaborative practice skills for delivery of high quality, patient-centered care on an interprofessional team. Learners will participate in interprofessional small group sessions (Core Principles of IPE) to apply the skills learned with a trained facilitator, as well as participate in interprofessional simulation with standardized patients. Students should enroll in 1 unit in one term, and zero units in the other two.

Instructor(s): Angel C Kuo

This course will provide content on interprofessional collaborative practice skills needed to deliver patient-centered, quality care on an interprofessional team, specifically conflict management and leadership/membership on an interprofessional team. Learners will participate in interprofessional small group sessions to apply the skills learned with a trained facilitator. Learners will also evaluate team dynamics and engage in critical reflection of own behavior and impact on team dynamics.

Instructor(s): Cherry Leung

Critical analyses of contemporary strategies for the development of nursing theory building, particularly as they relate to selected nursing phenomena and an in-depth analysis of selected theoretical schools of thought.

Instructor(s): Astrid J Block

Course Description: This course examines the theory and practice of providing palliative and end-of-life care to patients and their families across multiple practice settings and the lifespan. A multidisciplinary approach to palliative care will address symptom management, as well as spiritual, ethical, communication and self-care issues.

Instructor(s): Lauren J Hunt, Astrid J Block

This course introduces essential communication skills and capacities that are required for effective palliative care nursing practice. Course activities include the opportunity to practice communication skills using a variety of methods.

Instructor(s): Pilar Bernal de Pheils

The course provides advanced content and supports practice in Spanish language skills. The emphasis is on taking a health history, giving physical exam instructions, assessing patient understanding of health, illness, and belief systems, and addressing patient concerns. Proper terminology and correct grammar, applied within the socio-cultural background of selected Latino American groups will be supported. The course is entirely online and conducted entirely in Spanish.

Instructor(s): Pilar Bernal de Pheils

Course provides advanced content and practice in communicating with Latino women. Emphasis is on selected reproductive health care issues for women including eliciting a health history and providing guidance. Effective communication with appropriate terminology, \r\nattentive to the Latino American woman sociocultural context, will be practiced. Course will address assessment of a women's understanding of reproductive health, and will be offered fully online and will be conducted in Spanish.

Instructor(s): Alonya Elgrably

Course integrates and applies system-focused physiologic and key pathophysiologic concepts across the life span that supports the foundation for advanced-level nursing education and practice. Emphasis is on the association of physiological alterations with clinical manifestations.

Instructor(s): Orlando O Harris

Course provides an introduction to the principles and methods of qualitative research, critically analyzing the elements of qualitative research design set within the context of the research question to be asked and the existing knowledge in the area.

Instructor(s): Jerry John Nutor, Abbey D Alkon

This course provides an overview of quantitative research methods, including study designs, sampling, data collection procedure, instrument validity and reliability, bias, and ethics, along with the skills to critically analyze research studies using of techniques used to conduct systematic reviews of bodies of knowledge and provides strategies to critique the scientific rigor of quantitative research designs.

Instructor(s): Glenn-Milo Santos

Course focuses on integrating commonly used statistical analysis techniques and clinical, health and epidemiological research studies. It provides didactic training and lab demonstrations of different statistical analyses for monitoring patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations; investigating predictors of health; evaluating the efficacy of interventions; and interpretation of findings from analyses. It also provides an overview of study methods.

Instructor(s): Linda M Stephan, Laura M Wagner

Students will discuss and analyze the ethical principles and professional role development of advanced practice nursing. Students will also explore healthcare policy and its impact on practice, as well as public and social policies that influence health determinants and health care outcomes, and the role of the nurse as an advocate.

Instructor(s): Linda G Park

This course will introduce clinical researchers to the use of computer software for managing and analyzing clinical research data. Currently available statistical packages will be described and the roles of spreadsheet and national database programs discussed. Use of STATA for managing, cleaning, describing, and analyzing data will be taught in lecture and laboratory sessions.

Instructor(s): Ifeyinwa V Asiodu

Course examines the construction of qualitative research and ethics in research. Students formulate research questions and design a qualitative study.

Instructor(s): Jyu-Lin Chen

Course critically evaluates concepts underlying measurement reliability and validity. Construction of measurement tools and their use in quantitative research will be explored.

Instructor(s): Soo-Jeong Lee

This course covers the essential concepts, principles, and methods of epidemiologic research. Content includes key features of descriptive and analytic epidemiology, measures of risk, measures of association, causal inferences, and study designs. The course will emphasize application of the principles and methods in reviewing and using epidemiologic knowledge and research findings and in guiding practice and research.

Instructor(s): Christine A Miaskowski

Course addresses the theoretical and specific basis for the assessment and management of complex conditions experienced by patients with cancer. Emphasis is on the nursing assessment and management of oncologic emergencies (e.g., spinal cord compression, sepsis, superior vena cava syndrome, disseminated intravascular coagulation).

Instructor(s): Sue A Mark

Course will focus on nursing management of cancer related symptoms, with a specific focus on the older adult physical and mental health status. Content covered will include symptom management during active treatment and survivorship. Application of geriatric-focused assessment and prognostic/outcome prediction tools in the context of aging physiology and cancer pathophysiology will be emphasized.

Instructor(s): Catherine M Waters

Course focuses on the foundations of advanced public health nursing to promote and protect the public’s health, taking into consideration socioecological contextual factors that influence diverse populations and their interface with community and public health systems.

Instructor(s): Carol S. Dawson-Rose

Course will increase learners’ capacities to identify potential health promotion opportunities and prevention problems in vulnerable communities, create a partnership with community members, formulate plans to identify potential health promotion opportunities and the deep roots of health problems, and write proposals to obtain funding that will support activities for community-based health projects.

Instructor(s): Laura-Ann L Kee

This course is designed to introduce advanced practice nurses to cardiovascular diagnostic tests and illustrate how to incorporate diagnostics into clinical decision making.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth O Castillo

This initial course of a 3-quarter series provides foundational knowledge of the impact of the social determinants of health on morbidity, mortality and health outcomes in rural environments. Learners will utilize key rural health concepts to plan community engagement and resource mapping

Instructor(s): Lisa K. Mihaly, Linda M Stephan

The course will introduce learners to the concepts of structural racism and other inequities and the implications for advanced nursing practice. The link between historical events and current health disparities are analyzed. The intersectionality of racism with poverty and other marginalized and underserved communities will be discussed in depth.

Instructor(s): Linda G Park

The course focuses on development of a career as a university faculty member. Emphasis will be on understanding how to develop a program of research and develop a reputation in the field. Foci will include teaching, mentoring students, and university/public service. This seminar will develop the skills required for achieving success in an academic career.

Instructor(s): Kathleen M McDermott, Kara M Birch

Foundational course that presents the science, epidemiology, etiology, and development of mental disorders across the lifespan. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will guide diagnostic understanding and inform the differential diagnosis. The course prepares the PMHNP student to appraise mental disorders in the context of social determinants of health.

Instructor(s): Margaret Wallhagen

This course involves a critical investigation of theoretical approaches related to the study of adults as they age and palliative care. Emphasis is placed on bio-psycho-social theoretical perspectives and how these perspectives guide development of science for nursing care of adults across the life spectrum. Students' and others' research programs illustrative of methods for development, testing and implementation of selected theoretical approaches are discussed and critiqued.

Instructor(s): Rosalind M. De Lisser

This is the first course in a series which focuses on foundational knowledge and skills for PMHNP role development. It introduces the student to self-reflective practice and principles of psychotherapeutic care. Using in-class simulations, students will learn techniques for establishing and maintaining a therapeutic alliance with individuals across the lifespan.

Instructor(s): Rosalind M. De Lisser

This course is the second in a series and focuses on assessment, case formulation and treatment planning for PMHNP practice. Using classroom exercises and simulation, students will acquire the ability to develop case formulations and treatment plans for individuals with mental disorders across the lifespan.

Instructor(s): Rosalind M. De Lisser

This course is third in a series. Students will focus on assessment and treatment planning for complex cases with multiple comorbidities, including substance use and trauma-related disorders. Students will examine structural barriers and system-level approaches to caring for patients across the lifespan with complex needs. This course supports the student in transition to practice competency as an entry-level PMHNP.

Instructor(s): Karen L Schumacher

This course examines principles and methods of mixed methods research. The emphasis is on application of philosophical and theoretical foundations, study designs, data collection, analysis, and interpretation of results. Students will critically appraise mixed methods studies relevant to their own areas of research and develop a mixed methods research proposal.

Instructor(s): Andrew D Penn, Andrew R Hultgren

This is the first course in a series to prepare the PMHNP student for the prescription of psychopharmacology and somatic therapies to treat mental disorders in individuals across the lifespan. The course will provide foundational knowledge of common neuromodulatory therapies and major classes of psychotropic medication to insure safe prescribing.

Instructor(s): Andrew D Penn, Andrew R Hultgren

This is the second in a series to prepare the PMHNP student for prescription of psychotropic medications to treat mental disorders in individuals across the lifespan. The course will evaluate evidence-based therapies for individuals and special populations across the lifespan. This course will examine stigma and sociocultural factors that affect individuals' ability to access and engage in health care. Upon completion the trainee will be eligible for the DATA 2000 X-waiver license.

Instructor(s): Andrew D Penn, Andrew R Hultgren

This is the third in a series to prepare the PMHNP student for the prescription of psychotropic medications to treat psychiatric and substance use disorders in individuals across the lifespan. The course is focused on complex cases in psychopharmacology and will and evaluate use of evidence-based therapies for individuals and special populations across the lifespan. This course will examine stigma and structural barriers that affect individuals' ability to access and engage in health care.

Instructor(s): Monifa Willis, Lydia Anne Bartholow

This is the first course in a series which examines theory, principles, and application of individual, family, and group psychotherapies across the lifespan. This course will address cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, motivational, dialectical, and psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapeutic intervention.

Instructor(s): Monifa Willis, Lydia Anne Bartholow

This is the second course in a series that examines application of individual, family, and group psychotherapies across the lifespan. This course will address group therapies, family systems, attachment and developmental approaches to psychotherapeutic intervention. It is designed to use clinical case materials as the basis for discussion of assessment, engagement, and evaluation of psychotherapeutic interventions within the context of PMHNP practice.

Instructor(s): Monifa Willis, Lydia Anne Bartholow

This is the third course in a series which applies knowledge of psychotherapeutic principles to complex cases across the lifespan. This course will address harm reduction, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal approaches to psychotherapeutic intervention. Students will explore application of each therapy to PMHNP clinical practice, identifying and evaluating specific therapeutic skills for patient engagement, interviewing, treatment planning, referral and/or intervention.

Instructor(s): Sandra J Weiss, Christine A Miaskowski

This course focuses on integrative, multi-method approaches for the use of self-report or observational measures in conjunction with genetic or neuroendocrine markers, electrophysiologic sensors, microbial sampling or other biological measures of a symptom. Participants will design biobehavioral methods to achieve a more comprehensive, multi-system understanding of a symptom or symptom clusters. Analytical strategies for synthesizing two or more measures of a symptom will also be addressed.

Instructor(s): Heather C. Leutwyler, Margaret Wallhagen

This course is in the series of courses for the Biobehavioral Research Training in Symptom Science. In this course, trainees will gain a working understanding of symptom science, analyze theories and designs appropriate to the study of symptom science and symptom management, and discuss the application of the symptom management model developed at UCSF. The course will also focus on operational definitions and measures of the symptom experience (symptom perception, evaluation and response).

Instructor(s): Michele M Pelter

This course will focus on cardiac electrophysiology in both normal and pathologic states and how these states alter the 12-lead ECG. The focus is on in-hospital monitoring with an emphasis on interpreting 12-lead ECGs. Content includes the physiologic mechanisms of arrhythmias, ischemia/infarction and cardiac abnormalities (i.e., QT prolongation, chamber enlargement). Research in the field of electrocardiology and its application to clinical practice will be discussed.

Instructor(s): Linda S. Franck

In this foundational course, students and faculty will review classical and contemporary philosophical viewpoints relevant to nursing science. We will examine salient turning points in the history of epistemology, ontology, and moral philosophies..

Instructor(s): Annesa P Flentje

This course will examine illness-related, gender-related and sociocultural factors that affect risk for co-existing psychiatric and substance abuse disorders and ability or willingness to access health care and community services. Models of service delivery will be evaluated for their ability to produce measurable health improvements for populations with these co-existing disorders.

Instructor(s): Kristina Fortes, Michelle E Buchholz

Course addresses pharmacotherapeutic and pharmacokinetic concepts across broad pharmacologic agent categories. Key physiologic changes across the lifespan that impact pharmacological agent effect and action is highlighted. Course content builds knowledge and skill to assess, diagnose, and manage common health problems, including relevant legal, regulatory, quality and safety issues relating to advanced practice nurse pharmacologic agent furnishing/drug ordering.

Instructor(s): Andrew D Penn

Course will focus on the development of effective clinical judgment in the psychopharmacological treatment of patients with mental illness. It will cover the major mental illnesses, as well as treatment considerations of special populations.

Instructor(s): Lisa C Guertin

The course provides instruction in the selection of antimicrobial therapy for acutely ill/hospitalized adults and principles of antimicrobial stewardship. This is web-based course contains 9 modules on selected topics such as pulmonary, skin, cardiac, and neurological infections. There are 1-2 mandatory remote seminars.

Instructor(s): Bridget E Gramkowski, Fania I Lazarov

This course provides a conceptual approach to pediatric pathophysiology and pharmacology. Emphasis is placed on evidenced based decision-making, minimizing adverse reactions and maximizing outcomes for children with common ambulatory conditions. This course also provides an overview of physiologic changes in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug-drug interactions across the life span, as well as legal, regulatory and safety issues related to prescribing.

Instructor(s): Carrie T Chan

This course provides a conceptual approach to pediatric pathophysiology and pharmacology as it relates to the therapeutic management of children with complex conditions encountered in the chronic or urgent care setting. Emphasis is placed on current research to guide decision-making, minimizing adverse reactions and maximizing outcomes for children with complex treatment regimens. This course builds on content from the N232.05A Pathophysiology and Pharmacology in Primary Pediatric Care course.

Instructor(s): Kyung Mi Mi Kim

Foundational 2-course sequence (N233A/B) for students to engage in scholarly activity using data for informed evidence-based policy and decision making. In N233A, students will learn to identify key components of the research process, prepare and manage data for analysis, conduct and interpret descriptive analyses. Followed by 233B.

Instructor(s): Ulrike Muench

Foundational 2-course sequence. Course builds upon the skills of N233A towards preparing students to engage in scholarly activity using data to inform evidence-based policy & decision making. Includes managing data for analysis, applying statistical software to conduct descriptive statistics and regression analyses, preparing results for dissemination, and critiquing strengths and weaknesses of qualitative and quantitative studies in the health policy/public health literature.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth A Gatewood

This course is the first in a series of two focused on advocacy, community engagement, quality improvement and leadership. It is an interprofessional program, completed in collaboration with the UCSF Family Medicine Residency. This program is designed to help students develop skills to serve as collaborators and leaders. Students will complete QI modules, attend weekly seminars, panel discussions, site visits, and identify a community partner organization for collaboration in the second quarter.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth A Gatewood, Naomi Wortis

This highly self-directed, integrated, longitudinal course provides FNP students an opportunity to work with Family Medicine residents at SFGH on a community-engaged systems improvement project. In this part B of the course, students apply skills acquired in part A (N234.02A) to design and implement a project with their community partner.

Instructor(s): Astrid J Block

Course provides the learner with a simulated learning experience in planning an evidence-based small test of change quality or process improvement project. Learners will identify a clinical problem or process suitable for a small test of change project and develop a project plan that includes appropriate measureable outcomes. Quality/process improvement concepts as well as patient safety principles will provide the theoretical basis for project proposal development.

Instructor(s): Abbey D Alkon

Course is designed to provide the student with a scientific basis for understanding the normal pattern of development in the infant and child (birth- 12 years of age). Building on knowledge of normative development, common behavioral issues and mental health concerns that are encountered by advanced practice nurses in primary care and specialty settings will be reviewed.

Instructor(s): Oi Saeng Saeng Hong

Seminar focuses on design and practical implementation of research on factors at work and in the environment that affect community health. Theoretical, ethical, policy and procedural issues related to occupational and environmental health research will be discussed. Students and faculty will bring examples from their research for discussion and problem-solving.

Instructor(s): Margaret Wallhagen

Critical examination of research in aging, focusing on collaborative, interdisciplinary research (i.e., nursing, medicine, geropsychiatry, and the social and behavioral sciences). Emphasis will be on the interdisciplinary research process and methodological and theoretical frameworks.

Instructor(s): Kim Q. Dau

This course focuses on a critical analysis of current issues in nurse-midwifery, including issues in maternal and child health, effecting policy, the legal basis of practice, beginning skills for establishing practice and ensuring quality in nurse-midwifery practice settings. This course provides professional content necessary for practice as a certified nurse-midwife.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth A Gatewood

Professional Seminar offers 2nd year Family Nurse Practitioner students content on transitioning into the FNP role and additional clinical content on management of emergent and difficult clinical situations. This course provides students with experience in career building, including resume writing, job applications and negotiations, and licensure and certification application. Additional content includes patient satisfaction metrics and techniques, and ways to not miss emergent conditions.

Instructor(s): Roland Zepf, Adam J Leonard, Janessa Broussard

Course provides an overview of the HIV-related epidemiological concepts, screening and diagnosis, basic HIV primary care, co-occurring conditions, prevention of HIV, and key populations.

Instructor(s): Roland Zepf

Course will introduce the clinical application of pharmacology in the management of HIV-infected adults and adolescents based on the current US DHHS Treatment Guidelines for Antiretroviral Therapies and The Prevention of Opportunistic Infections.

Instructor(s): Adam J Leonard, Janessa Broussard

This course provides content on the clinical management of HIV-infected adolescents and adults with an emphasis on HIV complex chronic disease management and common HIV-related conditions and comorbidities. Students should have a basic knowledge of HIV epidemiology and HIV pharmacology.

Instructor(s): Janessa Broussard, Adam J Leonard

In this course, students will attend HIV/AIDS Grand Rounds at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (in-person or online) to attain the latest clinical, diagnostic, research, and treatment information regarding the pathogenesis and management of HIV. Students will be expected to attend and participate in weekly hour long grand rounds offered UCSF Division of HIV Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine. This course may be repeated up to 3 consecutive terms, and may not be taken for more than 3 terms.

Instructor(s): Bethany J Phoenix, Aaron M. Miller

This course examines and discusses theories and practice of various group modalities in current use. Emphasis is on understanding and promoting therapeutic processes in types of groups commonly facilitated by advanced practice nurses.

Instructor(s): Annesa P Flentje

Course focuses on principles of supportive psychotherapies with adults experiencing a range of psychiatric problems. It also reviews models of crisis intervention, behavioral, cognitive behavioral, and motivational interventions. It is designed to use clinical case materials as the basis for discussion of assessment, goal setting, and intervention.

Instructor(s): Bethany J Phoenix

Course examines theories from social, behavioral and neurosciences to explain psychobiological responses to different types of trauma. It applies developmental theories to understand effects of traumatic events on persons across the lifespan. It explores assessment and intervention of individuals, families and populations with past or current physical, sexual and emotional violence, as well those experiencing natural or man-made disasters. Course emphasizes both acute and chronic responses.

Instructor(s): Linda M Stephan, Adam J Leonard

This course investigates pediatric health promotion, clinical prevention, and population health through course readings, lectures, and case discussions. Evidenced-based approaches for individual level interventions are analyzed, and community and systems level interventions are explored.

Instructor(s): R Scott Scott Weyland, Lisa C Guertin

The course provides specialty content necessary for AG-Acute Care Nurse Practitioners to institute health promotion, maintenance and disease prevention in the care of stable, hospitalized patients. This content will enhance understanding of the inter-relatedness of health promotion and disease prevention aspects within and across various cultural groups in an acute care setting. This course is an online course that meets the ANCC course requirement health promotion and disease prevention.

Instructor(s): Brittany P Christiansen

Course focuses on the application of culturally sensitive pediatric health promotion strategies with the ethical integration of life-sustaining healthcare for chronically-critically ill children in varied health care environments. Emphasis is placed on the application of foundations of pediatric health promotion including assessing growth and development, health screening, vaccinations, and surveillance for health and behavioral/mental health disorders while providing life-sustaining care.

Instructor(s): Helen R Horvath

The N245.28 Seminar provides students with content in risk assessment, application of evidence-based clinical prevention strategies and skill development in selected health promotion activities for the purpose of providing primary care to adolescents and adult's health across the adult lifespan.

Instructor(s): Chelsea S Landolin

Course investigates clinical prevention, health promotion, and population health concepts in relationship to health through literature review and case studies. Evidenced-based, epidemiologic, population health approaches will be applied to healthcare decision making at all levels of prevention at both the individual and system levels.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth A Gatewood

This course introduces students to signs and symptoms of illness across the life span that are commonly encountered. Symptoms and signs will be analyzed using a clinical decision-making model. The underlying causes and appropriate management of common illness' are discussed.

Instructor(s): Andrea Kuster, Sarah F Nathan, Jennifer J Huggans-Zapeta, Abbey N Roepke

Seminar is taken concurrently with N246 Symptom Assessment and Management, and provides specialty content necessary for family primary care nurse practitioners. Application from N246 lectures will be made using case presentations and other relevant learning strategies.

Instructor(s): Andrea Kuster, Sarah F Nathan, Jennifer J Huggans-Zapeta, Maria Massella Hernandez

This online seminar is taken concurrently with N246 Symptom Assessment and Management, and provides specialty content necessary for family primary care nurse practitioners. Application from N246 lectures will be made using case presentations and other relevant learning strategies.

Instructor(s): Linda M Stephan

This course introduces students to symptom presentation and related conditions commonly encountered in pediatric primary care. The patients' clinical presentations, differential diagnosis, diagnostic approaches, and appropriate management are discussed.

Instructor(s): Adam J Leonard

This course prepares the student to apply knowledge of pediatric healthcare maintenance, pathophysiology, pharmacology and symptom assessment to the management of complex well-child and common acute pediatric illness. Through problem-based learning and other didactic learning strategies, students will build upon differential diagnosis skills and develop basic proficiency in the formulation of an evidenced based treatment plan for common pediatric primary care chief complaints.

Instructor(s): Bridget E Gramkowski

This course introduces the student to concepts related to the management of complex or chronic pediatric illness in the primary care setting. Through problem-based learning and other didactic learning strategies, students will apply foundational knowledge of differential diagnoses and management to the assessment and management of complex conditions in the context of pediatric primary care.

Instructor(s): Bridget E Gramkowski

This course advances student skills related to the management of pediatric complex conditions and introduces concepts related to the care of children with chronic conditions in the specialty care setting. Through problem-based learning and other didactic learning strategies, students will refine skills in the assessment and management of complex conditions in pediatric primary care and learn strategies for effective collaboration and coordination of care with pediatric specialists.

Instructor(s): Bridget E Gramkowski

This course incorporates skills related to assessment, diagnosis and management of well and ill children, and prepares students for the transition to leadership and independent clinical practice across settings. Through problem-based learning and other didactic learning strategies, students will refine skills in the comprehensive care of children and learn to integrate them within the context of professional role development and state and federal standards for safe and ethical practice.

Instructor(s): Carrie N Evans

Seminar provides specialty content necessary for primary care nurse-midwives and women's health nurse practitioners. Application from NURSING 246 lectures will be made using case presentations and other relevant learning strategies.

Instructor(s): Rebecca L Silvers

This course focuses on the assessment and management of symptom presentation in chronically and acutely ill infants, children and adolescents. Emphasis is placed on examining the scientific literature on the clinical presentation and management of symptoms in this pediatric population and the application of evidence-based practice to guide clinical management.

Instructor(s): James V Gatewood

The N246.28 seminar provides content specific to the Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner role in assessment and management of symptoms commonly encountered in primary care of adults across the lifespan. Seminar is taken concurrently with N246 Common Symptom Assessment & Management and application from N246 lectures will be made through case-based discussions.

Instructor(s): Miranda E Surjadi

Course introduces the more complex health problems encountered in primary care. Clients clinical presentation, underlying causes and appropriate treatment are discussed. Separate specialty track seminars permit elaboration of problems as they occur in the specialty.

Instructor(s): Kristen E Peek

Seminar is taken concurrently with N247 and provides the specialty content necessary for family primary care nurse practitioners. Application from N247 lectures will be made to the specialty area using case presentations and relevant learning strategies.

Instructor(s): Lisa K. Mihaly, Andrea Kuster, Sarah F Nathan

Advanced specialty seminar to extend knowledge of the varied scope of problems in family primary care. Advanced skill training in case presentation and management that represents integration of prior theoretical and clinical course work.